Valerie Cooper

Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies

Divinity School

valerie.cooper@duke.edu

Duke PO Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708-0968

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Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies · 2014 - Present Divinity School

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Published November 20, 2015

Valerie Cooper quoted: The religious fundamentalists are losing

Published September 22, 2015

Valerie Cooper comments: Israel courts African-American evangelicals, despite some hurdles

Published June 30, 2015

Valerie Cooper quoted: The deep racial division in American churches

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Recent Scholarly Works

MARIA STEWART'S BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Book section · July 18, 2023 A Black woman who was born free in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1803, Maria Stewart is widely believed to be the first American woman of any race to have given a political speech to an audience including both men and women and to have left copies of her texts ... Full text Cite

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Change Our Future Teaching

Journal article Religion and American Culture · June 1, 2020 Full text Cite

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Education

Harvard University · 2004 D.Th.